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AG candidate Richard Brodsky today released a list of all the legal cases in which he has been involved over the past decade, as well as his annualÂ financial disclosure statement, and called on his opponents – especially Democratic AG frontrunner Andrew Cuomo – to do the same.

Brodsky said he and Cuomo chatted about this in December and agreed that disclosing their clients was a good idea.

Cuomo spokesman John Del Cecato had no comment about either Brodsky’s claim or whether Cuomo will release any client lists during this election cycle. Â

Brodsky stated in his press release that all candidates for statewide office must file financial disclosure forms by May 15. Walter Ayres at the state Ethics Commission challenged that statement, saying all statewide officials currently in office must file by that date, including state Assembly members like Brodsky, but candidates without current state posts have until after they are either designated at the state conventions or petition their way onto ballot.

After he left HUD, Cuomo worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, which also once employed Cuomo’s running-mate-turned-rival-for-AG, Charlie King.Â Cuomo left the firm in May 2002, but nevertheless refused to release his client list during the governor’s race that year. This became fodder forÂ Cuomo’s Democratic primary opponent, former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.Â Â

Cuomo is now a partner in Island Capital Group LLC, a New York City real estate firm.

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